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Uzumasa Limelight
★★★★★

Director Ken Ochiai, known for his emotion-infused films, creates another sentimental work...

The editorial unit 18th January 2016
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Rams
★★★★★

Writer/director Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams is a film in which the setting in many ways dictates...

Stuart Boyland 15th January 2016
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Bolshoi Babylon
★★★★★

Bolshoi Babylon starts with beauty. Images of ballet dancers fill the screen and through them...

The editorial unit 15th January 2016
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Patience, Patience, You’ll Go to Paradise
★★★★★

“Patience, patience, you’ll get to heaven,” is...

Natasha Furlong 14th January 2016
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Ip Man 3
★★★★★

After the acclaim received by Ip Man and Ip Man 2, Wilson Yip’s Ip Man...

Jim Compton-Hall 14th January 2016
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Innocence of Memories
★★★★★

The collaboration between noted British filmmaker Grant Gee (best known for the 1998...

The editorial unit 14th January 2016
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The Assassin
★★★★★

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien has a reputation for the extravagant. The celebrated filmmaker...

Andy Jones 12th January 2016
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Breakdown
★★★★★

British director Jonnie Malachi’s gangster pastiche Breakdown is a vicious mongrel of a movie,...

The editorial unit 11th January 2016
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The Revenant
★★★★★

The Revenant, directed by Alejandro G Iñárritu, is being released one year after Iñárritu’s...

Gioia Kennedy 11th January 2016
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The Big Short
★★★★★

The Big Short is like a “cookie filled with arsenic” – to quote Burt Lancaster...

Edward Till 9th January 2016